This post will be filed under "What the heck?" - but it must be shared.
Oktoberfest is almost here! So Müncheners are warming up by singing & dancing... with pugs? This was a recent news video on many major German websites (Spiegel, Focus, Bild, even the Financial Times Deutschland!):
It's incredible how relaxed the dogs all are! I know our friend A in Austin, Texas will love that video.
(The title means "Swaying Pugs in Munich".)
Next... just more cute dogs. It's a pair of pugs, each with an Oktoberfest lebkuchen heart around the neck:
Full disclosure: the German word "Mops" means pug. The plural would be "Möpse"... but this is also slang for boobs. The video's title is therefore a play on words, also referencing the effect dirndls have on womens' figures.
Each year there are new "Wiesn Hits" -- songs that become popular due to being played often in the Oktoberfest tents. A band called Flat Out recently wrote a song based on this double entendre, called "Scharfe Möpse" (in this context, scharf means "well-defined" or "hot"). They abviously want their song to become a hit. Perhaps this isn't so subtle, but one lady (below) was ready to dance with her pug anyway!
In the last video, a woman dressed her pug up... in a dirndl. It's 11 seconds you won't soon forget.